Adele Is Still No 1 And Sold 10% Of Albums In Top 500 Last Week

Adele ‘25’ is still selling in outstanding numbers with the title last week alone counting for 10% of all album sales in the Top 100.

In its seventh week on the chart Adele’s ‘25’ sold 14,183 copies in Australia, almost double that of no 2 ‘Purpose’ by Justin Bieber with 7,618 sales and almost 10% of the entire Top 500 sales for the week (147,719).

‘25’ has now sold 447,468 copies in Australia and has been certified 7x Platinum. By comparison, Bieber’s ‘Purpose’, now out eight weeks is still at 1x Platinum. Coldplay ‘A Head Full Of Dreams’, five weeks on the chart, is certified 1x Gold.

Rachel Platten ‘Wildfire’ was the only album debut in the Australian chart this week. The next chart could see Adele dethroned by David Bowie ‘Blackstar’. ‘Blackstar’, released on January 8, 2016, is the first major release of 2016.

Last Friday the 8th of January was the 69th Birthday of music legend David Bowie and also the day that he released his 25th studio album entitled “Blackstar”, then two days later on the Sunday he passed away from his struggle with cancer, and as his album was already on track to take over the No.1 spot from Adele, it was then cemented to the top of the retail and digital sales charts and lands at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart this week.

Not since Pink has an act scored the ARIA No.1 Album of the Year twice, but for 2015 Adele and her third set “25”, it took out the top honors, matching the top spot her previous album “21” achieved for 2011.